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The Kansas State Capitol, known also as the Kansas Statehouse, is the building housing the executive and legislative branches of government for the U.S. state of Kansas. Located in the city of Topeka, which has served as the capital of Kansas since the territory became a state in 1861, the building is the second to serve as the Kansas Capitol.
Topeka, [a] officially the City of Topeka, is the capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Shawnee County. [9] [10] [1] It is along the Kansas River in the central part of Shawnee County, in northeast Kansas, in the Central United States.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 24 January 2025. U.S. state This article is about the U.S. state. For other uses, see Kansas (disambiguation). State in the United States Kansas State Flag Seal Nickname(s): The Sunflower State (official); The Wheat State; America's Heartland Motto(s): Ad astra per aspera (Latin) To the stars through ...
At least eight workers died during construction of the Kansas Statehouse. A committee is considering creating a monument to honor them.
The Ad Astra statue of a Kansas warrior atop the Kansas Statehouse dome has a replica that could be on Capitol grounds with fundraising help. The Ad Astra statue of a Kansas warrior atop the ...
The other 40 states have separate buildings for their supreme courts, though in Michigan, Minnesota, and Utah the high court also has ceremonial meetings at the capitol. [clarification needed] Most U.S. capitol buildings are in the neoclassical style with a central dome, which are based on the U.S. Capitol, and are often in a park-like setting.
At the Kansas Capitol last month, families wept while recounting the deaths of their children, relatives and friends from fentanyl. Their stories are a small piece in a much larger national ...
Tragic Prelude is a mural painted by the American artist John Steuart Curry for the Kansas State Capitol building in Topeka, Kansas. It is located on the east side of the second floor rotunda . On the north wall it depicts the abolitionist John Brown with a Bible in one hand, on which the Greek letters alpha and omega of Revelation 1:8 can be seen.